Word: shotgunned
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Thach was barely big enough to lift a 12-gauge shotgun when his father taught him how to shoot. On his first hunting trip, says Thach, "I learned an astonishing fact: in any organization, even a two-man hunting party, each has a share of work to do." He learned other lessons that still serve him well. "Don't shoot at the bird," his father warned on early quail hunts. "Shoot where he's going...
Last week three Boyd youths took direct action. Armed with a shotgun and a .22-cal. pistol, they visited Cockrell's chief sponsor. Mayor Willie Berle Horn, told him: "You get rid of Cockrell, or we will. And you'll be next." Answering a Horn call, Cockrell caught up with the boys in a grove of trees at town's edge, where farmers park their trucks to sell watermelons. There, in a wildly confused tussle, the shooting started. While frightened farmers dived under their trucks, Cockrell fell, shot three times with .22-cal. bullets...
...there remained only the rumors. Some said she plunged into the river and drifted toward Martha's Vineyard; others that she was cut down in a frisbee cross-fire and buried at the Business School. A few are known to whisper of a midnight motorcycle kidnap and a shotgun wedding over two steins at Nick's (that's South of here). But Portia Parsley is now a legend, murmured at midnight over English muffins in the Bick, and remembered sometimes at a Yard punch. She never returned to North Dakota...
...Then I met Jane. One day she said she was going to have my child. Her brothers were hunting me with hide whips. I was real worried. So I married her, just one week before my divorce from my first wife. It was a shotgun wedding without shotguns. I never married Jane properly, and though she divorced me, she didn't need to. She was never my wife...
...touch you," he assured her, gasping with excitement. Suzanne contemptuously accepted his diamond but declined payment, and Joseph stirred worms into his coffee. But Ma led the suitor on, in hopes he would lend her money. When he didn't, Joseph ran him off the place with a shotgun, and then ran off himself-to the city...